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@jajablonski.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 11:59 AM

Good news! Bookshop is offering free shipping today & tomorrow (6-7 Oct) if you're thinking you'd like to pre-order my academic murder mystery, RESOLUTE DEATH.

More info here: https://jajablonski.com/books/

#AcademicMystery #CollegeCrime #ExclusivelyInPrint #FreeShipping

Front cover of Resolute Death by J.A. Jablonski. Original art: Stephen Richards. Front is a presentation. Against an all-white background, is a large black raven in flight. All-caps, dark red title is set midway on the cover. Text below in a small, black serif font reads "An Osley College Novel." Below that, in a dark red font matching the title is the author's name.

Also noted: "Exclusively in print."

@jajablonski.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:12 AM

The grand unboxing tradition in publishing is always fun, more so for self-publishing authors. After all the imagining, effort, and hope, the gift to oneself!

RESOLUTE DEATH, my academic mystery, debuts 28 October. Preorder: jajablonski.com/books/

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

@jajablonski.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:12 PM

🎉 Cover Reveal Day! 🥳

So jazzed to show off the cover of RESOLUTE DEATH, my academic mystery novel debuting on 28 October!

Preorder info here (plus bonus audio narration of the opening Prelude): jajablonski.com/books/

(Book description in alt-text.)

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

Front and back cover of Resolute Death by J.A. Jablonski. Original art: Stephen Richards. Front is a presentation. Against an all-white background, is a large black raven in flight. All-caps, dark red title is set midway on the cover. Text below in a small, black serif font reads "An Osley College Novel." Below that, in a dark red font matching the title is the author's name.

The back cover shows more of Richards' design: black and grey, ink-wash drawings of tree trunks against a white background. Superimposed is the book description/blurb: a roughly, dark-red outlined box enclosing the book's description:

"Resolute Death offers an intense, immersive tale with masterful plotting. An essential read for those who love an intricately woven mystery that highlights loss, memory, retribution, and found family.

When a glamorous music professor is found dead in the carillon tower of Osley College, a small liberal arts college in the Driftless Region of western Wisconsin, Maude Ascham, the new chief of campus police, has her hands full. Her investigation leads to porn-watching students, an angry boyfriend, a betrayed lover, and feuding colleagues. Students, faculty, and staff: all are implicated. When the Dean of Libraries commits a gruesome suicide three weeks later, the investigation becomes more than a matter of murder.

Who is blackmailing James North, the bereaved, ex-hobo English professor and celebrated poet? Why would someone destroy the 175-year-old bonsai of the cantankerous college gardener? Was last December’s drowning of a senior music student really an accident? And what of Ariel Ellis, the eccentric, blue-haired barista, who is clearly hiding something behind their theatrical banter; and Esha Larkin, the maps librarian seen weeping on the old library’s roof at dawn? Each appears to hold a vital piece of a dangerous puzzle. There is a killer on campus . . . can they be stopped?"

@jajablonski.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 3:39 PM

“College campuses can be kind of funny about their trees.” (AHA)

Osley College, the setting of my #AcademicMystery, RESOLUTE DEATH is no different. Auspicious then that my cover artist, UK artist, Stephen Richards, finds them rather fascinating as well.

#CollegeMystery #CampusCrime #CollegeCrime

An evocative clustering of trees, seen only via their trunks, created using wax resist and black ink in combination with pencil. Text in red below the trees reads "Cover Revear 1 October 2026."

@jajablonski.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 11:29 AM

Ravens, cultural symbols of intelligence, creation, and death, are a visual motif in my #AcademicMystery storytelling. The evocative cover art for RESOLUTE DEATH by UK artist Stephen Richards perfectly embodies their grim and occasionally witty presence.

⚡📚 #Ravens #CollegeMystery #CollegeCrime

Left: Black and white ink wash drawing of tree trunks. Right: The black silhouette of a raven in flight on a dark red back ground. Small text below one tree trunk reads "Original Cover Art: Stephen Richards." Larger text along the bottom of image reads "Cover Reveal 1 October 2026."

@jajablonski.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy Sep 25, 2026, 6:36 PM

My academic mystery, RESOLUTE DEATH, comes out at the end of October! More deets on 1 October!

Meanwhile, another wee tease of the cover art featuring the original work of UK artist, Stephen Richards.

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CampusCrime #CollegeCrime

A raven in black silhouette in flight against a dark red background. Text reads: Cover Reveal - 1 October 2026.

Note: The odd texture of the red is due to the image having been run through the Glaze app, "an open-source software tool designed to safeguard digital artworks from style mimicry by generative AI models" (from Wikipedia),

@jajablonski.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 6:10 PM

My academic mystery, RESOLUTE DEATH, comes out at the end of October! More deets on 1 October!

Meanwhile, another wee tease of the cover art featuring the original work of UK artist, Stephen Richards.

#AcademicMystery #CollegeMystery #CampusCrime #CollegeCrime